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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. If you can engage massive online audiences they will come en masse to bigger budget theatrical releases.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On JFDI (play on Just Do It) - Chamillionaire talked a lot about social media.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If YouTube really cares about dominating the future of Internet video it should take less because at 45% it will only encourage video producers to seek alternate distribution and will make it easier for competitors to emerge. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.)

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AUGUST 14, 2011

And as long as people put things right and show contrition, situations like this eventually become a “ tempest in a teapot. &# Today’s Internet titans are filled with such momentary lapses. Find other media outlets to tell your story. I want to know our media roadmap. Get Media Training. It works every time.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Doesn’t.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant. Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. Underbelly. You know that deep down.

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APRIL 16, 2011

“The Internet saved my life. The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. I didn’t think about who was going to put food in the refrigerator.&#. The women are out there.

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JUNE 17, 2013

Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” Apparently Zig got that from Theodore Roosevelt if the Internet is to be trusted. But it is so true.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. Why is that?

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JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú?

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APRIL 19, 2011

o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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MARCH 5, 2010

It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. .&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. should have come out early and say, “we lost the search war to Google but we still have a have a great media business and we’re going to focus on that.&# Incumbents can’t react. A note for industry.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Or how about the inventor of the Internet? It is called, “ the new rules for the Internet bubble &# and he just nails it. You couldn’t help but seeing Uber Pedicabs all around town. But you also wouldn’t have struggled to share one with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. No, not Al Gore. He was there. And accessible.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. million views).

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media.

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APRIL 15, 2010

You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. 5mm in Series A : Accel and Andreessen Horowitz.

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MAY 19, 2013

He talked about how we were going through a period of time in which people were measuring “likes” and “followers” but not the real value of social media conversion by tracking what actually converts into business and that few people understood the catalyst of what drove a successful campaign in the first place.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. People throw them around at cocktail parties.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. The Internet is “smart pipes.” hours of TV per day. People read for less than 30 minutes.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. 62% of adult US Internet users check or send email on a daily basis. Calls are changing but not dying. 94% of all online adults use email.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I’m spending a lot of time looking at video production & distribution because I believe this will form a larger basis of the future Internet and I believe that Hollywood & television will face large, disruptive forces. I’m looking at how the digital living room will change media consumption.

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JUNE 15, 2010

I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. They also knew that I was from NorCal, which in 1999 was a huge bonus to foreign companies thinking about Internet strategies.

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APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media.

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APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 6:00 – 7:30).

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JULY 26, 2016

In picking your market you should focus on “deflationary economics” or lowering the price, functionality and margin of your business but targeting ever-increasing market sizes afforded by Internet scale. If you have a great idea and you don’t focus on deflationary economics — somebody else when and you’re forked. I hope you enjoy it.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Mobile email without getting out my laptop and connecting to the Internet? Most people bought it as a phone and an Internet browser. iPhone became my media consumption device. – we all needed email. Palm obliterated. The first time I saw a Blackberry I ditched my Palm. Wha’? Sign me up. Blackberry’s were cool.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

No matter how smart or knowledgable Gore was he couldn’t get a break in the media. ” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC. ” “Hollywood is run by dinosaurs and we understand the future of media.” Call on me. I know the answer.”

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AUGUST 15, 2010

One person who doesn’t waste this opportunity is Sam Jones of Formation Media. I run a company called Formation Media. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. My partner was in product management at Demand Media.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Think Compaq when Dell first went direct over the phone then Internet. I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. There you have the innovator’s dilemma.

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APRIL 1, 2014

TrueCar is the first ever Internet service that tells you exactly how much other people in your area paid for the car you want to buy. Even governments don’t like losing their monopoly – control of the media. ” The next step is the industry tries to fight back. Turkey or China?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It is an alter ego name that follows you on the Internet. Social Capital / Earned Media – For many people keeping a blog is a way to build up “social capital” or as it’s sometimes referred to as “earned media.” PSEUDONYMITY. You heard it here first. I think it’s a big concept.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. By the time we had met Tracy she was running a profitable business, was paying herself a salary and was on the verge of launching her second (related) Internet business called Style Trader (more on that in a minute). She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

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JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. And it carries no inventory. -A Current round: $4.2mm led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group. Total raised: $6.0mm.

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